The Timeless Rivalry: Ronaldo vs Messi

An investigation tracking Messi and Ronaldo’s performance trends

Project description
Author
Affiliation

Mobolaji Adewale, Narasimha Vardhan Rachaputi, Pradnya Raut, Praveen Kumar Pappala, Tushar Kant Singh, Usama Ahmed

School of Information, University of Arizona

Topic One

Animations

Animations, cont.

Interactive

Discussion

First animation is an animation created using gganimate. It is a highlighting countries where Messi and Ronaldo scored goals for a particular year over the period from 2005 to 2022. It also displays total number of goals scored by each player in all matches in that year

Second animation is also similar to first one displaying countries where goals were scored in a year all over the world by the two but zooming only Europe and Russia.

In year 2012 Messi scored highest goals of 74 whereas in 2013, Ronaldo scored highest goals of 58.

Both players scored higher goals compared to the other for 8 years each.

Messi scored higher goals than Ronaldo in years viz. 2009-2010, 2012, 2016-2019, 2022 whereas Ronaldo scored higher than Messi in the years 2005-2008,2013-2015, 2020

The total goals scored by Messi in there years are 652 whereas goals scored by Ronaldo in the same period are 654.

From 2005 to 2022, globally, Messi has scored more goals than Ronaldo in 11 countries, while Ronaldo has outscored Messi in 13 countries out of all matches played by both players.

So the performance of both players looks almost comparable in terms of goals scored with Ronaldo scoring marginally higher total scores than Messi

Topic Two

Limitations

The data for both players is available from 2005 to 2022. So the comparison between two players is made only for this duration of 18 years